Wikipedia:Recentism

Allegations of recentism should prompt consideration of proportion, balance, and due weight. Material may need to be moved, deleted, or added to. Certain articles might be merged or placed on ; conversely, articles may need to be split into new articles for balance. Sometimes in-depth information on current events is more appropriately added to , which can be reached .

Over-use of recent material does not by itself mean that an article should be deleted, but the quick and contemporaneous passage of events may make any subject difficult to judge as actually notable enough for a permanent encyclopedia entry. Proper perspective sometimes requires maturity, judgment, and the passage of time.

An event that occurs in a certain geographic region might come to dominate an entire article about that region. For example, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the New Orleans, Louisiana, article was inundated with day-by-day facts about the hurricane. The solution: an article on the Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans was created to collect this quickly accumulating content.

Sometimes extreme weather or disasters can inspire a "recentist" article. Hurricane Katrina was a historic weather event, while 2006 United States heat wave and 2007 Western United States freeze might be considered recent documentations of summer and winter, respectively.

Subjects with a long history might be described in purely modern terms, even though they were actually more significant in the past than they would be today. Even when the topics remain significant, articles can cover the subject as if the most recent events were the salient, defining traits. For large-scale topics, such as Slavery, Marriage, or War, the stress might be on simply the last few centuries, though the subject matter of the article might have a history of thousands of years.

. When dealing with contemporary subjects, editors should consider whether they are simply regurgitating media coverage of an issue or actually adding well-sourced information that will remain notable over time. Yes, unneeded content can be eliminated later, but a cluttered "first draft" of an article may degrade its eventual quality and a coherent orientation may not always be attained.

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